How To Play Lossless Music In Windows Media Center
Everton | Oct 13, 2008 | Comments 2
I first burned all my CDs to my PC when i purchased my first 15GB iPod back in 2004. After importing my first 100 CDs or so I realised I’d made a mistake choosing quality settings that would allow me to fit as many tracks as possible onto my iPod and computer, as I realised I was better off choosing the best settings possible, as in the future I’d probably have more storage available to accommodate my bigger files. So, I went back and re-imported all my CDs in the best format possible.
I’ve been doing the same again over the last couple of months to add my music in the FLAC lossless format. The filesizes are huge, up to 50MB a track, but I can tell the difference when I play music on my good system. Using MediaMonkey to do this is brilliant as it automatically converts my FLAC files on my iPod to something that it can play.
Unfortunately I hadn’t been able to find a way to play FLAC files in Windows Media Center until yesterday, when I found a guide to playing Lossless Music in Windows Media Center. After a few simple steps I was able to play all of my tracks within VMC, which is fantastic, as VMC is the main way that we listen to music in our home.
To read the guide click here.
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Bigger files were a problem back when we had 1GB Ipods but this idea seems brilliant as it allows you to paly those files at home. In fact it will save you some space as you no longer need to keep two different formats on your pc :)
Those lossless FLAC files sure do appear to be quite large. Maybe that level of quality should only be saved for certain songs that a person listens to often. This is a useful fix to be able to play those songs on a mainstream player.